Thread: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
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yablacky is offline yablacky
2011-12-20 , 00:26
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#879
Originally Posted by refugee View Post
Hi,
I made the 'fatal' mistake to change my SIM card while having SMSCON installed. After several unsuccessful attempts to bring things back to normal through the SMSCON editor, I still received those sms's regarding the SIM and the GPS location of the phone on every single reboot.

Finally I gave up and removed both SMSCON, the editor, plus the opt/... and etc/inti.d paths. It was futile. My N900 still thinks I am the thief and keeps sending to itself sms's.

Please let me know how to get rid of the SMSCON ghost!
Regularly uninstalling SMSCON prior to 0.9.3 does not remove all of its parts. Sorry for the inconvenience. This is one issue we fixed.

To get rid of SMSCON try to execute following commands as root in this order (ignore errors in case files to be removed do not exist):
Code:
rm -f /usr/bin/smscon
rm -f /etc/sudoers.d/smscon.sudoers
rm -f /etc/event.d/smscon_boot
rm -rf /opt/smscon
update-sudoers
gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor

# reboot the phone to finally kill the "ghost":
reboot
I you are not root or don't know how to become root you might consider to install smscon 0.9.3 or higher (sounds crazy, I know) and then regularly un-install it via application manager. This would then under the hood execute above commands as root and kills the ghost without reboot.
 

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